January 3: all albums get digital release by Island Records

AlexRocks wrote: Actually...the 40th anniversary is 2013...right?    When the first studio l.p. was released?    I mean the Beatles (if this is a standard of comparision) don't celebrate their anniversary when they formed but when their first recording came out...single or l.p. or what have you.    I actually have started to take the opinion that they should wait until their fiftieth anniversary before they really release a ton of the archives...who cares about a fortieth anniversary?!    How absured...then again maybe I'm just wrong...I think it might be worth the wait personally and work out better for them and the catelog.
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I might be dead in 10 years - many Queen fans will be and many have already passed, so forgive me when I shout you down and ask you not to put ideas into QPL'S head.....

I had always assumed that the first Universal releases would just be regular releases so record shops could get stock when the EMI ones run out.

GinjaNinja wrote: I doubt they'll be remixed from the multitracks. I've heard that they are being remastered by Bob Ludwig. 

Our best chance of getting a new mix of the songs is if they release DVD-Audio versions of the albums. I now only listen to that version of The Game, as the sound is so much clearer.

Fingers crossed!

I think you'll fond 'Pure Audio Blu Ray' is the latest format for High res/5.1 audio.  DVD Audio and SACD, good as they were are now preety much obsolete (I think there ares still teh odd SACD release).

But it's unlikely QP will release anything  on this exciting new blu ray format as it won't sell to the masses (the 'mp3 generation)/  Plu They're (QP) are so far behind the times I doubt they've even heard of this new format.

KevoM wrote:

But it's unlikely QP will release anything  on this exciting new blu ray format as it won't sell to the masses (the 'mp3 generation)/  Plu They're (QP) are so far behind the times I doubt they've even heard of this new format.
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When Brian was questioned about Live In Ukraine not being released on blu-ray, he said, "I think the general feeling is that Blu-Ray, in spite of beating its adversary Hi Def, is not catching on as well as was expected."

Ummm....yeah.  That was in '09, so hopefully he's changed his mind about blu-ray now, though.

Even George Lucas resisted the DVD format back when The Phantom Menace came out. Remember, the only way to get the widescreen edition of the movie, with the documentary, was to get the VHS boxed set? The box had the mini Art Of The Phantom Menace book, a set of frames from the film (literally three or four frames of image...what were we supposed to do with those, exactly? Collect them all and splice together the whole movie?) and the Widescreen Edition VHS. What a spectacular joke that product was, but we all bought it because we wanted the widescreen version.

I think Blu-Ray is here to stay, at least for the foreseeable future. The prices are creeping towards reasonable and getting a BR player doesn't mean buying all our (DVD) movies again, as they play both formats (most of the time).

That's hysterical.    How could a format be declared dead when only three or four recording artists have used it?     What there is Neil Young with his "Archives", Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers with their live box set anthology, and maybe Nine Inch Nails that have used Blu-Ray as an audio format (which should have film stuff as well...).    I don't know...